Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individuals, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company serves approximately 56 million U.S. consumer and small business relationships. It is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading.

Bee Downtown installs and maintains beehives on corporate campuses in urban areas to support sustainable urban agriculture while simultaneously providing turn key year-round employee engagement and leadership development programming to our partners. Our unique approach to onsite leadership development, paired with continuous specialized engagement throughout the year, has generated quite the buzz on many of the largest corporate campuses in the United States including Delta, AT&T, Chick-Fil-A, Burt’s Bees, SAS, Invesco, Georgia Power and more.

Bland Landscaping is a regional, private equity backed, Commercial and Estate Landscape Management and Contracting business headquartered in Apex, NC. Since our humble beginnings in 1976, our geographic footprint has grown to span across The Carolinas from Charlotte to Wilmington and beyond. While we are best known for our landscaping and grounds management work in the Horticultural arena, we also perform contracting and care of memorial gardens, parks, and estate grounds.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) has been committed to making health care better, simpler and more affordable since 1933. And, we've been the driving better health in North Carolina for generations, working to tackle our communities’ greatest health challenges. Today, Blue Cross NC is a fully taxed, not-for-profit North Carolina company with major operations centers in Durham, Fayetteville and Winston-Salem. We employ about 4,800 North Carolinians1 and serve our customers and communities of more than 3.81 million members, including almost 1.1 million served on behalf of other Blue Plans.2 Blue Cross NC is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

We believe nature holds the key to healthy skin, so we create skin care formulas that are packed with powerful, nutrient-rich ingredients for skin that’s nourished, balanced and beautiful. Our formulas reflect evidence-based natural skin care learnings, and are crafted to work with skin’s natural pace of renewal by nourishing emerging cells and supporting the hydro-lipid barrier. Our nutrient-rich ingredients deliver vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, essential fatty acids, and other phytonutrients to address specific skin care concerns. As a company, Burt’s Bees operates with a triple bottom line—people, profit, planet—because you simply can’t have one without the other two. We actively nurture our employees, our customers, our families, ourselves and our environment. By practicing what we preach, we hope to set an example for others to follow, and help people connect with the wisdom, power and beauty of nature in their daily lives.

Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. is a diversified communications company which owns and operates several entities across the state of North Carolina. Raleigh, NC: WRAL, FOX50, MIX 105.1, Sports Radio (99.9 The Fan, an ESPN affiliate, The Buzz, and The Ticket), That Station (WCLY-FM), CBC New Media Group; WRAL Digital Solutions, and Microspace, Wilmington, NC: Broadcasts stations include WILM-TV, WILT-LD and Sunrise Broadcasting which consists of 6 radio stations (Jammin'​ 99.9, Sunny 103.7, Z107.5, 98.7 Modern Rock, ESPN WIlmington, and 95.9 The Breeze). Durham, NC: The Durham Bulls Baseball Club, Bull City Hospitality, the American Tobacco Historic District, Big Top, and the American Underground startup hub. Real Estate: Rocky Mount Mills in Rocky Mount, NC; and Professional Builders Supply (an equity partnership) in Morrisville, NC.

Citrix provides technology that empowers organizations to #UnlockPotential & deliver a better employee experience. Our goal is to give people the space to succeed & do their best work - wherever they are. Our platform brings intelligence, virtualization, workspace and app delivery, a zero-trust security approach, and data analytics together into a seamless experience that fosters innovation, resilience, and business continuity. From enabling sustainable remote work models to streamlining the journey to multi-cloud, Citrix helps securely deliver how work gets done today and in the future.

Coastal Credit Union operates 23 branches in central North Carolina and offers a full range of financial products and services. Today, with $3.4 billion in assets, Coastal serves 270,000 members from 1,700 business partners and is consistently named one of the best places to work. Since 1967, Coastal has fostered the credit union philosophy of “people helping people.

For more than 50 years, Durham Technical Community College has provided high-quality, affordable, and convenient technical and career education. With articulation agreements with many four-year schools, Durham Tech is a springboard to a bachelor’s degree. Tens of thousands of Triangle residents have come to Durham Tech for its wide array of continuing education offerings; many thousands more have come here for a second chance at success through adult literacy programs. Durham Tech serves the citizens of Durham and Orange counties at its Durham, Hillsborough and Chapel Hill locations.

El Centro Hispano is a Latino nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the community, building bridges and advocating for equity and inclusion for Hispanics/Latinos in the Triangle area of North Carolina.

At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products.

Forward Cities is a national learning network of cities committed to advancing inclusive innovation and economic development in their communities. Launched in 2014, Forward Cities started in partnership with four cities: Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, and Durham. It built on this work with a similar multi-city learning collaborative in North Carolina called InnovateNC and through a recent merger with CEOs for Cities, a seminal U.S. urban leadership network, Forward Cities has grown to a network of over 30 member cities nationally and expanded its capacity-building, convening, and communications support for cities.